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2010-05-04 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
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Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

2010-05-04 Thread Fred Schmidt
Thanks for all the further replies. As mentioned, we have already put something in place that works for us and we'll stick with that. I do like Ron Hawkins and Brian Fraser's suggestions though and they appear a lot more elegant than what we implemented. I also found the reason why FTP

Re: Calculate Tape Bytes to Tracks

2010-05-04 Thread John Ticic
I'm curious how you might be expecting to factor in IDRC compression with the data stored on the tape? I believe that the BLKCNT represents what is being stored, not what got sent down the channel. On tape drives with IDRC or other compression, MVS is only aware of logical blocks sent

Re: How to analyze a volume's access by dataset

2010-05-04 Thread John Ticic
Cast your mind back to GTFPARS. This IBM FDP would build seek histograms using IEHLIST VTOC Listings as input to map the extents of the datasets on the volume. Ah Ron, the good old days. One of my tasks at NAB was using GTFPARs to map out the SYSRES access pattern and build allocation JCL to

Re: OA29000 and DOM

2010-05-04 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote in message news:listserv%201005030640325808.0...@bama.ua.edu... For the past week I have been struggling with a performance problem in our automation NetView. The NetView behaviour changed when OA29000 allowed all messages to be considered action messages.

Re: recommended way to send large files from Z/os to WIN and backward

2010-05-04 Thread Matan Cohen
MFnetdisk was consider as an substitute options. The desire state is to get the Datasets when initiate the connection using FTP batch from the MF. when connecting to the Mainframe FTP from my station I was able to send the Dataset. we design a backup proccess to get rid from our 3590 tape library

Re: OA29000 and DOM

2010-05-04 Thread Barbara Nitz
Kees, * When the message is an action message (descriptor code 1,2,3 or 11) * and not a WTOR, domaction nodelmsg and hold disable is specified. * This signifies that the NetView program does not expect to receive a * DOM for this message and will not keep any internal record of it * for future

Re: MVS to z/OS Experience Looking for Work

2010-05-04 Thread Brian Westerman
You can also try DICE.COM Good luck Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: recommended way to send large files from Z/os to WIN and backward

2010-05-04 Thread shai hess
HI, MFNetDisk can emulate 3490 tape without real tape and with automatic fast mount. You can run DFDSS in MF with the tape data in PC using MFNetDisk? (no need FTP). PC can be Linux or Windows. When ever you need the data back to MF you have it using the tape emulation which access the tape

Re: How to analyze a volume's access by dataset

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, I remember, and Ian Lee wouldn't believe me when I wanted to change the ordering and VTOC location after we put SYSRES on the 3880-23. Now we do this with volume placement in array groups, instead of datasets on volumes. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Single point of Failure...not a good idea. Are you running with ECS? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Norgauer Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 6:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Catalog re-location We are

ServerPac Download Size for z/OS V1.11 on MOD9

2010-05-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Listers - I have been going through the archives to see if this was already answered. Since I did not find anything quickly, I need to ask We are getting ready to order the z/OS V1.11 from Shop zSeries We only use 3390-9 at our shop. I have heard rumors that I will need a Mod27 to download

Re: ServerPac Download Size for z/OS V1.11 on MOD9

2010-05-04 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Tue, 4 May 2010 07:56:09 -0400, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Listers - We only use 3390-9 at our shop. I have heard rumors that I will need a Mod27 to download this file. Lizette - We only have mod-3's here and I sucessfully downloaded it here. You just want to make

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Darth Keller
Single point of Failure - Other than John's saying he's moving to Hitachi Mod 9's, he really didn't describe his storage. It would probably be safe to assume ( watch me get burned on this one) he's got RAID DASD - in which case he does have some protection. In my case, in the last 10

Re: ServerPac Download Size for z/OS V1.11 on MOD9

2010-05-04 Thread Jousma, David
Lizette, Your order will say how big the download is. There has been some guidance given over time here on the forum that you need roughly 1.5x - 2.0x the order size in file system space. You can have multivolume ZFS. Here is my JCL to allocate one. //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=128M

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 05/03/2010 11:22 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic This

Re: ServerPac Download Size for z/OS V1.11 on MOD9

2010-05-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Dave, Thanks. I have not had much success with zFS files here. But using one for the Server Pac download makes sense. Lizette Lizette, Your order will say how big the download is. There has been some guidance given over time here on the forum that you need roughly 1.5x - 2.0x the order

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic

2010-05-04 Thread McKown, John
Hum. Makes me wonder if any hardware will ever introduce rational numbers. One rational register which is 128 bits(?) long. It contains a 64 bit numerator and 64 bit denominator. That solves the problem. Except for irrational numbers such a pi, e, and others that I don't remember. And,

why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, I try to hard code the SMS vts tape address but it shows the following error message, it works if I change the tape address to TAPEV. //SYSUT2 DD DSN=ZSMD.ZSMD137.XXX,DISP=(,PASS), // UNIT=(8649,1,,SMSHONOR),LABEL=(1,SL) IEFA100I ZSMD137$ BACKUP1 SYSUT2 ALLOCATION FAILED - SMSHONOR

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread McKown, John
Not sure, but a 4 digit UCB address does require a leading slash. Try: //SYSUT2 DD DSN=ZSMD.ZSMD137.XXX,DISP=(,PASS), // UNIT=(/8649,1,,SMSHONOR),LABEL=(1,SL) In your example 8649 was intepreted as an ESOTERIC name, not a UCB address. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic‏

2010-05-04 Thread john gilmore
Numbers like sqrt(2) are irrational, i.e., not expressible as a fraction having an integer numerator and denominator. Numbers like pi and e are transcendental. They are a very different kettle of fish. Rational numbers have decimal-fraction representations that are either terminating

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Tommy Tsui
8649 is a unit address for our VTS tape device. TAPEV is ESOTERIC name Under ESOTERIC name TAPEV which have 64 unit address 86XX 2010/5/4 McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com: Not sure, but a 4 digit UCB address does require a leading slash. Try: //SYSUT2   DD

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tommy Tsui Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work 8649 is a unit address for our VTS tape device. TAPEV is ESOTERIC name

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Tommy Tsui
here is the error message with /8649 IEFA100I ZSMD137$ BACKUP1 SYSUT2 ALLOCATION FAILED - SMSHONOR SPECIFIED ON A NON-LIBRARY REQUEST It works only if I given the TAPEV .. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Tommy, The first error you received indicated an invalid UNIT. This seems to be corrected with the /8369 Now you are receiving a NON-LIBRARY REQUEST. This is different. How are your drives defined in the VTS and in SMS? I think that your UCBs have some issues with SMS. It might be in the

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:32:03 -0500, McKown, John wrote: So what's your point? A three character hex string in the UNIT is intepreted as a UCB address. A four character hex string, unless prefix with a slash, is intepreted as an ESOTERIC name. Period. That's how JCL works. It's just part of the

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic‏

2010-05-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic‏ Numbers like sqrt(2) are

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tommy Tsui Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work here is the error message with /8649 IEFA100I ZSMD137$ BACKUP1 SYSUT2

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Tommy Tsui
Under the IODF I defined a ESOTERIC name TAPEV with 8610-864F address, It works if I change the /8649 to TAPEV. I don't know why? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:55:21 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Numbers like sqrt(2) are irrational, i.e., not expressible as a fraction having an integer numerator and denominator. Numbers like pi and e are transcendental. They are a very different kettle of fish. So you're saying that a

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Howard Brazee
On 4 May 2010 08:11:31 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: I perceive intense agreement here, subject to paraphrase. Yes, proper subset, so John might have more clearly stated, smaller kettle of fish. All real numbers are either algebraic or transcendental; mutually exclusive.

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread John Norgauer
Yes, I realize there would be a single point of failure, and we probably will not put them all on one volume. We are not using ECS, and we are using PAV and RAID. John Norgauer Senior Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Services University of California Davis Medical Center 2315

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Howard Brazee
On 4 May 2010 06:37:45 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote: Hum. Makes me wonder if any hardware will ever introduce rational numbers. One rational register which is 128 bits(?) long. It contains a 64 bit numerator and 64 bit denominator. That solves the problem. It

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:27:22 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: On 4 May 2010 08:11:31 -0700, (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: My intuition tells me algebraic numbers are countable, but I'll welcome a more informed correction. (That was either a guess on something I know, or a question about what I don't know.)

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread John Kelly
I would image that your STORCLAS ACS isn't assigning a STORCLAS to the request if you code unit=dev#, instead of esoteric. AS I understand SMSHONOR wants SMS attribute(s)? Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) From: Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 05/04/2010 10:39 AM

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Scott T. Harder
Wow. I don't think I could bring myself to put all of my catalogs on the same device - RAID DASD or no RAID DASD. I worked in Storage Management only for a year back in the mid-90's, so PAV's are something I'm not familiar with. Going by the name only (and some very quick lookup via Google);

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:36:47 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: Hum. Makes me wonder if any hardware will ever introduce rational numbers. One rational register which is 128 bits(?) long. It contains a 64 bit numerator and 64 bit denominator. That solves the problem. It could be. Depending on how

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/4/2010 10:35:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time, john.nor ga...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu writes: Yes, I realize there would be a single point of failure, and we probably will not put them all on one volume. I like to compartmentalize by application and by application level; i.e.

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, I don't agree that this is a single point of failure. Darth's point that disk arrays, be them HDS, EMC or whatever, are designed to be disaster tolerant is perfectly valid. Any catastrophic event that will lose data on a single volume in a disk array controller is likely to affect many, if

PAV's: was Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Darth Keller
Scott - take a look at this link (watch the wrap) http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds8000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.ssic.help.doc/f2c_pavs_32pavh.html Parallel access volumes (PAVs) allow your system to access volumes in parallel (think accessing a volume through

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
Yes, I realize there would be a single point of failure, and we probably will not put them all on one volume. There is a school of thought with this type of thing (it can apply to more than just catalogs) that more than 1 or 2 increases your chance of having a problem.How many of your

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Darth Keller
So this SMSHONOR thing has really caught my attention. I've been looking through documentation this morning as if I can get this to work in our configuration, it will serve a need in our environment. We're getting ready to move all our virtual tape from a Composite Library with 2 Virtual

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Scott Rowe
Since you (correctly) added the / before the unit address in the JCL, the unit is no longer matching your FILTLIST in SMS. You need to add the / there as well. Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com 5/4/2010 10:58 AM Under the IODF I defined a ESOTERIC name TAPEV with 8610-864F address, It works if

EDGUX100 apply for z/OS 1.11

2010-05-04 Thread Greg Shirey
Hello all, We were putting our EDGUX100 exit in place for RMM on z/OS 1.11 and were following the sample job provided in the manual to run the receive and apply. When we ran the job, we got this in the apply step: GIM40501E ** THE DISTLIB VALUE (ASAMPLIB) SPECIFIED FOR SRC EDGAPISR IN SYSMOD

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
When did SMSHONOR come into being in DFSMS? I only seem to find doc on it from z/OS V1.11 and nothing before. Lizette 8649 is a unit address for our VTS tape device. TAPEV is ESOTERIC name Under ESOTERIC name TAPEV which have 64 unit address 86XX 2010/5/4 McKown, John

Error Message in CICS shutdown.

2010-05-04 Thread Sabo, Frank
I have questions for you, we are running CICS 3.2 and Z/OS 1.9 and brought up a new CICS region during shutdown we were getting the following error messages DFHTM1782I CICSP5 All non-system tasks have been successfully terminated. BPXP018I THREAD 18E8DDC0, IN PROCESS 16777249, ENDED

Re: Error Message in CICS shutdown.

2010-05-04 Thread Barkow, Eileen
The errors are harmless and do not prevent shutdown, but you can try closing all tcp/ip connections and socket connections or Anything else using Unix services (BPX). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sabo, Frank Sent:

CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
Am I the only one having trouble with CA web support. It claims I'm logged on when I try to logon and wants me to logon when I try to view anything secret, like my open issue. Or to open another issue! I'd open an issue, but :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State

Re: why SMSHONOR doesn't work

2010-05-04 Thread Mike Wood
Tommy, I wonder if you have correctly understood the description here http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2o361/2.1.6?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0I.bksDT=20100112161502 So, when you specify SMSHONOR, first SMS determines which devices it would have selected based on either; specific

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 May 2010 11:49, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010 09:36:47 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: Hum. Makes me wonder if any hardware will ever introduce rational numbers. One rational register which is 128 bits(?) long. It contains a 64 bit numerator and 64 bit

Integrated Security Services Enterprise Identity Mapping

2010-05-04 Thread Crispin Hugo
Dear All, Can someone tell me if Integrated Security Services Enterprise Identity Mapping is a separate chargeable item to RACF ? Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4 - This email has been scanned for all known

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Kathy Mander
There were changes made to Support Online over the weekend which implemented a single signon. Have your tried the age old solution of deleting your cookies and closing the browser? If you are still experiencing a problem you can contact support via the telephone at 1-800-call cai.

Re: EDGUX100 apply for z/OS 1.11

2010-05-04 Thread Staller, Allan
According to my z/OS 1.9 SMP zones the distlib for the EDGAPISR source is AEDGSRC1 Therefore, change the statement as follows: ++SRC(EDGAPISR) TXLIB(SRCLIB) DISTLIB(ASAMPLIB) . To ++SRC(EDGAPISR) TXLIB(SRCLIB) DISTLIB(AEDGSRC1) . HTH, snip We were putting our EDGUX100 exit in place for RMM on

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Am I the only one having trouble with CA web support. It claims I'm logged on when I try to logon and wants me to logon when I try to view anything secret, like my open issue. Or to open another

Re: EDGUX100 apply for z/OS 1.11

2010-05-04 Thread Greg Shirey
Ah, yes, there it is! Thank you, Allan, I'd have sworn I had looked in all the RMM libs for it, but I obviously didn't. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:06 PM According

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Hawkins
Mark, Exactly! Sometimes we have to ask ourselves why we did things in the first place, and test whether those things still apply. In 1984 my Senior Sysprog taught me that we have many catalogs to isolate catalog failure to just one or a few applications. That made sense, but the catalog

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
Yes, yesterday I closed all my open browser (several, not all ca) windows whacked all ca cookies and files, and the problem persists. Then at greater inconvenience, I closed everything down and rebooted. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Hardee, Charles H
Hi Dave, I forwarded your message on to one of the support managers here at CA. She replied with the following: Quote There were changes made to Support Online over the weekend which implemented a single signon. Have your tried the age old solution of deleting your cookies and closing the

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
Yup, just tried it again. With no Browser open, using internet option from control panel, whacked all ca cookies, and files. Same result. Retried and whacked everything since 4/27 including four files from this try. Same result. It shouldn't be this difficult, and yes I can open an issue on the

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Yup, just tried it again. With no Browser open, using internet option from control panel, whacked all ca cookies, and files. Same result. Retried and whacked everything since 4/27 including four files

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic‏

2010-05-04 Thread john gilmore
Paul, Briefly, as the polynomials having real, integral coeffficients are countable/enumerable, so their zeros, the algebraic numbers, are countable too. The transcendentals, on the other hand, are not countable; and they are thus much more numerous in Cantor's sense than the algebraic

Re: How to analyze a volume's access by dataset

2010-05-04 Thread Neil Duffee
SMF type 42 S42DSN/S42DSVOL? I have partial SAS layouts for dispersal if anyone wants them. -- signature = 6 lines follows -- Neil Duffee, Joe SysProg, U d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont, Canada telephone:1 613 562 5800 x4585 fax:1 613 562 5161 mailto:NDuffee of

Re: Integrated Security Services Enterprise Identity Mapping

2010-05-04 Thread Gerri Booth
All of the components of Integrated Security Services (EIM, OCEP, NAS, and others depending on the z/OS release) are base elements. IOW, they come free with z/OS. Information on whether components are base elements or optional features (priced or unpriced) can be found in Table 1 of the Planning

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Howard Brazee
On 4 May 2010 08:42:50 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: 3. Numbers that we cannot represent, such as e or pi. FSVO cannot. Both e and pi are readily represented as sums of infinite series. Which may or may not be useful in our computations.

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Howard Brazee
I wish CoBOL had a long type that is not limited by normal size limits.A number that can be defined with a size as long as any string the computer could handle. Sure, it would be as inefficient as heck, but occasionally it would be useful. Languages better suited for math could use it

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA Support online? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: Integrated Security Services Enterprise Identity Mapping

2010-05-04 Thread Crispin Hugo
Many thanks Gerri Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4 http://www.macro4.com/ Macro 4 plc, The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS Direct Line: +44 (0)1293 872121 Switchboard: +44 (0) 1293 872000 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 872001 This message contains confidential information and is

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic‏

2010-05-04 Thread john gilmore
ALGOL 68 had such a data type, but it proved to be highly problematic. Available storage was exhausted attempting to determine just how long the longest representation of a long...long value could be. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Linda Mooney
I can get logged in, but I can't get to my products. Linda - Original Message - From: Dave Gibney gib...@wsu.edu To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 12:23:06 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: CA Support online? -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic

2010-05-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
FSVO cannot. Both e and pi are readily represented as sums of infinite series. Plus, they can be represented on a computer to the precision of the bits in the hardware. Is that enough? BTW, transendental numbers are a subset of irrationals. If a number can be represented as a fraction (a

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Personally I think your single volume with many catalogs idea has merit. I don't. All the hardware in the world is NOT going to protect you from a logical (data failure). And, I'm not talking about just the catalogue. There's the VTOC, the VTOCIX, the VVDS, etc. Performance is not the only

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
It keeps crashing my IE6 session as soon as I start to enter my name. I tried deleting just to cookies for ca.support and that didn't work so I deleted all the cookies and temp files. Then I got further and was able to entered my name and password. When I tried submitting that it just hung.

Tivoli Output Manager Deployment Experiences - z/OS 1.9

2010-05-04 Thread William Smith
I am interested in offline contacts with customers who have installed Tivoli Output Manger Version 2.3 (HAAX230/5698-A26).  In particular, I am interested in user experiences, conversion experiences (from CA-View and CA-Deliver), overcome problems, and tips and techniques.   William J. Smith

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar i thmetic

2010-05-04 Thread zMan
I believe transcendental numbers are a subset of irrationals is a valid statement, but it sure *sounds* like 1970s psychobabble! Like, man... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: (may o r may not be on top i c) Float in g point ar i thme tic‏

2010-05-04 Thread john gilmore
Ted MacNeil writes: | BTW, transendental numbers are a subset of irrationals If, as I think we may safely assume, 'transendental' is a misspelling of 'transcendental', this observation is incorrect. An irrational number is a non-algebraic real number. And it is thus perhaps possible to

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:35:11 -0500, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: It keeps crashing my IE6 session as soon as I start to enter my name. I tried deleting just to cookies for ca.support and that didn't work so I deleted all the cookies and temp files. Then I got further and was able to

Re: CA Support online?

2010-05-04 Thread Gibney, Dave
It's an artifact of my work computer. My logon works on my personal laptop which has (up to now) never been to CA before. IE8 on both machines. Vista on both, 64 bit on my own, 32 bit on the workstation. NO luck after giving up on selective cookies and just whacking them all. Dave Gibney

Re: Catalog re-location

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ted, It helps if you read the email. I did not mention performance as a reason to spread catalogs across volumes, or to cease doing the same. On the contrary a warned that performance is something to consider if you do consolidate your catalogs onto one volume. I like it when you quote me

Re: How to analyze a volume's access by dataset

2010-05-04 Thread Larry Chenevert
Amdahl had an internal tool that did this. With the introduction of caching control units in the mid '80's, Amdahl developed a marketing tool acronym'd (application of the Fairchild verbing rule) CSIM -- Cache Simulator. The intended use of CSIM was to size caches in 6880 and 6100 control

Re: How to analyze a volume's access by dataset

2010-05-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
larrychenev...@verizon.net (Larry Chenevert) writes: Amdahl had an internal tool that did this. there were two different simulators done in late 70s ... one used standard i/o vm370 trace and modeled activity. it was modified to take a full 3330 configuration and output the configuration for

Re: How to analyze a volume's access by dataset

2010-05-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/4/2010 7:55:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time, larrychenev...@verizon.net writes: post his name here because I never met him in person (only exchanged a few emails) and don't know his current status. As far as I can tell he has IIRC it came with the 9880 cache

Re: recommended way to send large files from Z/os to WIN and backward

2010-05-04 Thread Bob Wood
The windows server does not know or care what the z/OS side looks like. The 4G issue would only be relevant if the disk that Windows stores the file on is formatted as FAT32. I have been backing up my z/OS data to a Windows box using FTP for years with no problems, and have many files 4G or